2008 NAIA Men's Championships

Dates, Format & Sites: The final rounds of the 57th NAIA Men's Tennis Championships will takeplace at the Mobile Tennis Center in Alabama May 12-16. Twenty-four schools qualify for Mobile through advancement in regional tournaments played the last week of April and first week of May.

Top Seed:Auburn-Montgomery finished the regular season with a 22-1 record and will try for its third consecutive NAIA title and eighth overall. Its lone loss the season came to Division II Armstrong Atlantic State.

History/Trends: Auburn-Montgomery has won the last two championships and four of the last six. The University of Redlands, now an NCAA Division III school, has won the most titles with 11. AUM's sevent titles are second most. AUM has beat Azusa Pacific in each of the last two finals. Azusa Pacific will be looking to advance to the final for the sixth straight year.

2008 In Review: AUM spent the entire season at No. 1 in the NAIA team ratings...Team has been led by senior All-American Daniel Plesa...AUM coach Anuk Christianz notched his 100th career victory in just his fifth season at the helm there... Fresno Pacific turned in an unbeaten regular season and snapped Azusa Pacific's SCAC win streak of 58 straight matches back on April 4...Embry-Riddle turned in a 16-2 season and won the Florida Sun Conference regular season title for the sixth year in a row, and also clinched the program's fifth consecutive NAIA Region XIV title in April. The Eagles' No. 2 seed for the NAIA Championships is the highest seed in program history...Embry-Riddle senior Mislav Hizak captured a record third straight NAIA men's singles title in October at the ITA National Small College Championships and also collected a third straight overall crown in the ITA "Super Bowl" of Small College Tennis. He registered a 15-0 record at this event from 2005-07.